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pioul

I switched from Firefox to Chrome at about the same time as op.

But I can't relate to how he feels:

- Chrome still has better dev tools than Firefox

- Chrome doesn't freeze at all (while Firefox does when handling a lot of tabs)

- Chrome doesn't require to restart when installing an extension (even if Firefox starts moving to this too)

- I still prefer Chrome's UI

- Even though I didn't try syncing with Firefox, Chrome does that very nicely

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> Chrome doesn't require to restart when installing an extension (even if Firefox starts moving to this too)

Mozilla did introduce an api to do restart-less addons about two years ago, as a side effect these addons don't depend on specific firefox versions anymore.

The problem with firefox addons is that they have always hooked directly into XUL, a layout language used inside firefox, which changes (nearly) every version. This means addons needed to be updated regularly. However it did allow them many capabilities (that I suspect the new api doesn't give them).

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